Apropos Compare the landlord (Inside Housing, 15 January) small can be beautiful but also currently not available for comparative purposes on the recently released Tenant Services Authority portal website.

David Orr’s article (Inside Housing, 18 December) about Housing Europe’s proposal to undertake a ‘green’ retrofit underlines how our homes contribute to climate change. In some regions, such as my own in the West Midlands, the housing stock is responsible for 33 per cent of carbon emissions.

Just a month after its launch, House Proud has won the support of all three main political parties, with each pledging to include housing in its election manifesto. This week we’re opening the floor to our backers, says Caroline Thorpe, and asking for your suggestions on what those pledges should be

Tim Leunig has engaged in his annual onslaught on green belt and greenfield sites (Inside Housing, 30 October 2009 and 15 January). Sadly, it clouds the real housing issues. Millions of pounds have been spent on various agencies to decide where and when new housing should go.

As Isabel Hardman’s article correctly observed (Inside Housing, 15 January), the data used by the Tenant Service Authority’s new comparison website for some social landlords is older than that of others and this can create a misleading picture, particularly at a local level where significant change has taken place, such as the transfer of management responsibilities.

There are no cameras, no besuited businessmen and no cries of ‘I’m out’. But social landlords inviting tenants to take part in their own versions of TV’s Dragons’ Den are finding the format a hotbed of good practice ideas, says Katie Puckett.

It’s a year since the good old days of the innovation and good practice grant came to an end. So what do landlords think of its de facto substitute, the decidedly more frugal tenant excellence fund? Our exclusive survey reveals all, as Lydia Stockdale reports